Big Drop Brewing Co.

Client Brewer in Ipswich, Suffolk, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 2016

Contact
Registered Office, 46 St Nicholas St, Ipswich, IP1 1TT, England
Description
Big Drop Brewing Co. is a new craft beer company dedicated to making great beer with an ABV of no more than 0.5%.

Big Drop was launched in October 2016 by the-then City lawyer Rob Fink, along with his school-friend/band-mate, designer and entrepreneur, James Kindred. Along with renowned experimental brewer, Johnny Clayton (formerly of Wild Beer Co), they’ve perfected techniques to make alcohol-free craft beer without the need for artificial removal of alcohol.

The 2018 contract with a leading supermarket chain will require Big Drop, which moved production from a small-batch brewer in Bermondsey to Sussex-based own-label specialist Hepworth, to scale up production from 10,000 litres per month to some 40,000 litres.

Production moved to Black Sheep Brewery after a deal was agreed with Keystone Brewing Group, announced December 2024.

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7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
5th March 2022
Can. Clear gold beer, tiny pale cream colour head. Palate is thin and semi dry and has a good fine minerally crispness. Thin but clean malts provide a modicum of sweetness. A fair dose of Citra hops here. Crisp pine. Decent blend of orange peel and fresher orange. Whisper of tangerine in there. Crisp finish. Clean and hoppy and pretty drinkable.
Tried from Can on 05 Mar 2022 at 22:57

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
440ml can. Gluten Free. Black-brown colour with reddish tinge, beige foam head leaving lacing and aroma of chocolate & coconut. Taste is dark malt, coconut, chocolate, light bitter. Smooth mouthfeel, medium bodied, soft carbonation, lingering coconut at the finish. Nicely drinkable.
Tried from Can on 27 Feb 2022 at 20:58

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 6
So thin... Chocolate is really present. Zero effervescence.
Tried on 10 Feb 2022 at 23:43

5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
Dark brown colour, looks fairly thin, with bug bubbles for head, a ten-second retention with no lacing left. Big-big aromas of coffee and chocolate, over the roasted malts. The taste really shows the burnt aspect of the roasted barley, with hints of leather and tobacco. It does have some decent notes of a stout, but you can see what the alcohol normally blends. I would take a black coffee of this, even though some hops do come out at last pour. Preferred the Adnams Ghost Ship 0.5% ABV I just had before.
Tried from Can on 03 Feb 2022 at 22:32

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
440ml can. Gluten Free. Pale bright gold colour, bubbly white foam head and aroma of fruity, raspberry, vanilla, ice cream. Taste is sourish, slightly tart, toffee, biscuit wafer, peachy with ice cream & vanilla notes. Light bodied, soft carbonation, light sourish biscuity finish. Quite drinkable.
Tried from Can on 02 Feb 2022 at 22:44

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Can at home picked up from Siren online. A opaque dark bronw black coloured pour with a lasting mid tan froth. Aroma is dry earthy roast, campfire, liquorice, charred wood, mineral. Flavour is composed of dry woody malts, roast, some creamy oatmeal rounding it out, bark, char, some mineral. Palate is thin, light creamy roundness. privkly carbonation. Decent substitute.
Tried from Can on 02 Feb 2022 at 22:16

6.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
Can at home picked up from Siren online. A clear mid orange coloured pour with a decnt white froth that lasts ok. Aroma is light bready grains, orange rind, lemon slice, tangerines. Flavour is composed of light malts, rye, bitter orange rind, pine, bark, crisp mineral finish. Light metalic. Palate is light, thin, fine carbonation. Decent substitute.
Tried from Can on 02 Feb 2022 at 21:39

4.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 7 Overall 4
Pours black, medium sized, slightly tanned head with medium high stability. Scent is coconut milk, just a minor ashy touch underneath from the roast. Taste is sharp, coconut-candy, coconut milk. Very soapy to me. fairly sweet. mild roastyness. Not as sharp ashy as I'm used to in NA stouts, making the actual beer better. The coconut , however, is so damn chemical and poorly blended in, that the beer isn't really enjoyable to me.
Tried on 30 Jan 2022 at 18:04

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
330ml can as part of a delivery from the brewery and drunk at home. It's mid- to dark brown with very little light getting through, with a small beige head. Smells of oak and metal with some caramel overtones. Tastes sweet with some mild bitterness. Watery body, soft to medium carbonation. It's refreshing but a little too reminiscent of those non-alcoholic malt drinks, which I suppose is what it is. It's okay.
Tried from Can on 26 Jan 2022 at 00:21

7/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
330ml can bought as part of a delivery from the brewery and drunk at home. Very dark brown with a little bit of light getting through. Topped with a khaki/brown head. Sweet-smelling aroma with lots of creamy chocolate. Tastes sweet as well but there's a little bit of stone-fruit bitterness... a lot of chocolate and coffee in the aftertaste. Light body, medium carbonation. Excellent for a low-alcohol brew.
Tried from Can on 22 Jan 2022 at 22:06